Reddit didn't create data. I did, you did, random users did. Why did it happen on Reddit? Because Reddit, at least for a while, seemed like it was a relatively open place where data wouldn't be stuck and made inaccessible without an account.

Reddit exists _despite_ Reddit's incompetent management and tech teams, not thanks to them.

Eh. You can be more incompetent.

Um, the users create the data, and consume it. Reddit provides a "marketplace" for that, and sells your data in exchange. Now, they want to rent-seek from the very people making it possible to create and consume that content easily.

And it IMO, is anti-competitive - they are intentionally killing all existing competitors, vs. improving their own offering.

Apollo is not a competitor to reddit, it's a consumer of reddit. Those are very distinct things. It literally doesn't even exist without reddit.

If I have a backyard and let you host a couple concerts in it free of charge and then next year I decide "hmm, I think I should be paid for those concerts you're hosting in my backyard" is that anti-competitive?

Absolutely not.

Apollo is also a producer to Reddit, as a large portion of its users use the app and contribute data via it

That's the funniest part about UGC companies treating their users like dirt.

> Apollo is also a producer to Reddit

By consuming its apis.....

Some of which are used to generate content, which other people consume. That's how web 2.0 works.